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America's Home Front
Cartoon by Dr. Seuss. Retrieved from http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm on 3/31/10
Propaganda Posters
This poster uses
demonizatoin to get
American support.
The US used many propaganda posters to drum up support for the war effort.
Images retrieved from http://www.propagandaposters.us/index.html
New Opportunities For Women
Rosie the Riveter was created to
encourage women to take
factory jobs while the men were
away fighting.
Images retrieved from Images retrieved from http://www.propagandaposters.us/index.html
Women were also
encouraged to join
the military.
New Opportunities For African Americans
African American
nurses
http://davislearningcenter.com/WWII%20Project.html
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African
American aviators in the American military.
http://davislearningcenter.com/WWII%20Project.html
The greater
need for
factory
workers
during WWII
provided
many jobs for
African
Americans on
the home
front.
http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/images/africanamericans-wwii-248.jpg
Conservation
Propaganda used
emotional appeals to
encourage Americans to
make sacrifices and
conserve as much as
they could to help the
war effort.
http://www.propagandaposters.us/index.html
Victory Gardens
Americans were
also encouraged
to grow their own
food during WWII.
War Bonds
Americans were encouraged to buy war bonds to help finance the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_bond#World_War_II for FDR video.
http://www.propagandaposters.us/index.html
Japanese Internment
In 1942, FDR signed an executive
order stating that JapaneseAmericans must live in internment
camps for the duration of WWII.
This was because they were seen
as a threat to American safety.
More than 100,000 JapaneseAmericans, many of whom were
American citizens, were forced to
live in these camps.